Box Hill is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 14 km east from Melbourne's central business district Its Local Government Area is the City of Whitehorse. At the 2006 Census, Box Hill had a population of 8,616.
Once a large independent city, Box Hill was absorbed into Melbourne as part of the eastward expansion of the metropolis in the late 1950s. As a result, it once had its own large historic Central Business District, its own municipal...
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Box Hill is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 14 km east from Melbourne's central business district Its Local Government Area is the City of Whitehorse. At the 2006 Census, Box Hill had a population of 8,616.
Once a large independent city, Box Hill was absorbed into Melbourne as part of the eastward expansion of the metropolis in the late 1950s. As a result, it once had its own large historic Central Business District, its own municipality in the former City of Box Hill and its own suburbs.
Box Hill is known for its multicultural diversity, and its resulting large range of restaurants and cafes of various international cuisines.
Box Hill was first settled by the squatter Arundel Wrighte, formerly of Van Diemen's Land, who in 1838 took up a pastoral lease on the land he had previously explored in the Bushy Creek area. The first permanent settlers, Thomas Toogood and his wife Edith, purchased 5,000 acres (20 km²) in 1841, and Wrighte built a house on his property "Marionvale"...
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